Massimiliano Esposito

Massimiliano Esposito was born in Milan, December 17,1969. From an early age he was passionated about drawing and painting. In fact, it was just natural that he attended the High School of Art of Milan and the School of Applied Arts in the industry, from which he graduated in 1990.

Parallel to his studies he teached illustration and painting in several Milanese schools. Some of his first works, which he called "Gothic" represent dreamlike landscapes populated by fantastic and mythological characters straight out of traditional European fables.

In 1992, Massimiliano Esposito discovered mural painting. Since then, he decorated private apartments and public places in Milan and surroundings. His talent for stage effects and the perspectives is then exposed to the sight of the public. This phase culminated in 1994. In effect, at age 24, Massimiliano goes on an adventure to New York, in the town of Greenwich, he discovered a restaurant called "Optical Illusion". Intrigued by the name of the place, he goes in and gets paid for repainting the walls and ceiling of the restaurant completely.

By the end of 1994, he returned to Italy where he began a new chapter in his professional life through yoga, which he had been practicing for a while and taught in Milan until 2012. He then decided to change paths again and goes to live in Paris. A versatile artist, Massimiliano Esposito engages initially in photography, then finds pleasure in drawing, illustrating and painting. Between 2013 and 2015, he held various exhibitions. He participated as well in several contemporary art exhibitions and made several murals and illustrations, most of them in black and white.